Contrary to popular belief, Yonkers is one of the safest cities in the United States if you consider that Yonkers is about 200,000 strong. People who tout otherwise are disinterested in using logic and/or facts. To their credit, Southwest Yonkers (home of the lovely Schlobaum and
Mulford Gardens) is absolutely brutal.
The city is coming around. With its perfect residence on
the Hudson River (which is a great landmark nobody cares about), Yonkers is rebuilding the waterfront and looking to return to its roots when the city was
tabbed, "The City of Gracious Living."
Example:
"
Mulford Gardens is, by all accounts, a notorious
public housing project: a cracking, leaking behemoth in southwest Yonkers that is teeming with
crack addicts, reeking of urine, infested with mice and devoid of any soothing greenery or recreational space that its name might suggest. The rest of the city is quite nice."